The first two great photos are from
Jim Trigwell, sent on February 23, 2000 and sourced from the Frazer Nash
Archives and the Ludvigsen Library.

The Mille Miglia below, S/N 421/100/168, is
a photo of my car from the AFN Archives. The narrative on the back states
it is Stuart Donaldson and Commander Jipson at Floyd Bennett Field. Mr.
Donaldson is listed as the original owner of several Frazer Nash cars brought
into the United States and he may have been operating as an
importer/dealer. The Navy aircraft appears to be a Grumman F9F Panther or
Cougar. Later owners were Captain J. I. Saubers (Palm Beach, Florida) and
Robert Scott (Honolulu).

J. Stuart "Duke" Donaldson was
also the owner of the 1952 Sebring-winning Frazer Nash Le Mans Replica (S/N
421/100/160), pictured further below. He is in both the color photo and
the Frazer Nash ad. This Mille Miglia is the only other Frazer Nash which
is known to be owned by him, but there is no history yet of his ownership
tenure. Duke Donaldson later was an owner-entrant of Indy cars, from 1957
through 1960 in the Indianapolis 500.

This Mille Miglia, S/N 421/100/124, is
thought to be driven by Bill Wonder in about 1954. This is the car that
was a New York Show car in 1951 and finished 14th at Sebring in 1953. Jim
Trigwell also sent this photo from the Ludvigsen Library, requesting
confirmation of the driver, date and location. Frank Twaits later wrote:
"That white Frazer Nash at speed is Bill Wonder at Watkins Glen. The year
is either '53 or '54 - maybe even '55."

This is a later owner, Bo Miske, racing the
same Mille Miglia at the Sedona Hill Climb in 1966. Mr. Miske may have
raced this car in Ohio and Pennsylvania. He is listed as "SCCA
Championship, 10th" for 1960, probably before before moving to
Arizona. This may close a "link", explaining how Ned Curtis
found this same car in Phoenix in 1975, in very bad shape.

Edward B. Eichenlaub Jr. also provided
some history for this car. He wrote that it was previously owned by Eugene
W. Gettig before Bo Miske. Mr. Gettig, who was Mr. Eichenlaub's cousin,
bought it in 1958 from Bob Grossman of West Nyack, New York. Mr. Gettig lived in
Akron, Ohio and raced the car in Pennsylvania and Ohio in 1958. Mr. Eichenlaub
reported that the car developed engine trouble and Mr. Gettig took the car for
repairs to Bo Miske, a sports car garage operator in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio. A
dispute about the repair ensued and Mr. Miske ended up with possession of the
car.

Mr. Eichenlaub did not know if, or how much, Bo Miske raced in Pennsylvania and
Ohio, but wrote that he moved from Ohio to Arizona. This Mille Miglia has been
restored and is now in England.

The photo is from
"Sports Car Graphic" August 1966.

The photo below is George Waltman in Le
Mans Replica S/N 421/200/174, a Sebring car in the 1953 12 hour race. Mr.
Waltman raced the car at Watkins Glen, Bridgehampton, Lime Rock and various
other circuits. This car, originally white, was the factory show car at
the 1952 Earls Court Motor Show:

This is Jim Lowe, an SCCA racer from
Santa Cruz, California in a Le Mans Replica S/N 421/200/183. The photo is
from the January-February 1956 issue of "Sports Car", a publication of
the SCCA. It was taken at the Sacramento sports car races for the
Governor's Cup:

This FN Archive photo is the same Le Mans
Replica pictured above, after being re-bodied in San Francisco by Nadeau
Bourgeault, still being raced by Mr. Lowe. This car was totally
destroyed by a later owner in a 1957 fatal racing accident at Paramount Ranch,
California:

At Santa Barbara and Palm
Springs.
These two photos above courtesy of Allen Kuhn, who retains all rights. Prints are available through
www.vintage-sportscar-photos.com.

This is Ted Boynton, who raced this Le Mans
Replica S/N 421/100/110 at many midwestern and eastern circuits. Mr.
Boynton won the SCCA Class E championship in 1954 with this car. Ian
Skailes has assembled a very
complete early racing history (click for the Acrobat file) of this car,
which was also a show car at the 1950 New York Motor Show. This was the
first Frazer Nash in the US, purchased after the NY Show by Larry Kulok for
$7,650. Both photos below were taken by Leo Patrick Cummings and sent by
Ted's nephew, Dr. Tony Boynton in 2009.

Ted Boynton at Wilmot

Dr. Boynton wrote:

"The Frazer Nash was my first love. As a kid, I
helped my uncle work on that car. I probably did something like measure spark
plug gaps or maybe just watching him do it, but whatever, I felt like I was
really working on a race car and at age 12 that was pretty cool as far as I
was concerned. He was absolutely fastidious when it came to his cars. I saw
him race the Frazer Nash at Wilmot, but just after that he sold it and bought a 2 liter
Maserati, and about a year later he sold that for a 2 liter Ferrari TR. All 3
of those car were painted by my step dad, Jim Witten, all were white with a
big red 7. I worked happily for many hours in the paint shop helping wet and
dry sand those babies before the lacquer was sprayed. Also gave me a chance to
sit in them and dream when nobody was watching. Sometimes just a skeleton car,
but that didn't matter, I was doing a hundred down the chute at Elkhart Lake!
Another guy who was a customer at our shop was Carl Haas, but my uncle had
cooler cars than he did."

He also sent this:

"I asked an old friend, Bob Ballenger, who used to race with my Uncle Ted, about those days. Here's some of what he said:

Tony, the one I remember the best was I believe 1951 when Ted ran the FN around the Lake course at Elkhart, long before the track was built in 55. He had taken the checkered flag and was on the cool off lap when he started to loosen his helmet and ran off the road into the berry bushes. They pulled him out all bloodied up but found the red stuff not blood but the red berries.

It took several years for him to live that down. He raced it at Wilmot a lot and had a super fun race with Hal Ulrich in the first of the Kip Steven's
Excalibers. He ran some rallies with the car but I didn't really get to know him until he sold the FN and bought the Ferrari."

And here is the same car with a new
owner, Bob Sawyer. This is the only sports car race ever held at
Glendale's (California) Grand Central Airport. The SCCA sponsored
these races on November 13, 1955. Bob was 15th in the 100 mile,
"Senior Drivers, Over 1500 cc" race:

The photo is from
the same issue of "Sports Car", January-February 1956.

In May, 2001, Mike Savin sent a note about
Mr. Firestone: "Jim Firestone, a man connected with my father (Ed Savin)
drove a Frazer Nash Le Mans Replica. He raced that car quite a number of
times. His death at the wheel of one was reported in R&T, February, 1958 (Editor's note: At Paramount Ranch, California).
It was a
great shock to us when he died. Jim was a great, affable man. He was
not very quick. My dad's driver, Bob Oker occasionally qualified the car for
Jim. Bob was much quicker. I also have some 8 mm movie footage,
about 1955-1957 with some shots of Jim's car in action."

The next two photos and captions are courtesy of Bill Oker,
who retains all rights to these photos.

"Definitely Santa Barbara,
September 1956, but not sure who's driving?"

Below are two great photos of the last Le Mans Replica,
421/200/193, courtesy of the second owner, Robert Richer. He bought it
from William O'Brien in 1957, with 360 miles on the odometer. It was sold to the
current owner in 1994 with about 21,000 miles! This was the Frazer Nash
pictured in "The Great Cars" (Ralph Stein) and on the covers of both
the July 1963 "Car & Driver" and April 2001 "Vintage Racecar
Journal & Market Report". Later concours pictures are below, in
the "Le Mans Replica" section.

Garrison Hill
Climb, May 26, 1957

Lime Rock, circa
1967

Watkins Glen, circa 1978,
with son Paul

Also Watkins Glen

Here are two great photos of the (missing) 1952 Sebring winner,
Le Mans Replica 421/100/160. The color photo is from the Sebring book and
the other photo is in a AFN ad which includes a testimonial from
"Duke" Donaldson, the winning car's owner. The full size photos
may download slowly, but the detail will let you read names on the crew
jumpsuits!

A copy of a Frazer
Nash ad, reprinted from the B.A.R.C. Gazette, March/April issue (1952?)

Frankie DelRoy, titled the "pit captain" for the
Sebring victory, had much Indy 500 experience and eventually became the USAC
Tech Director. He was one of eight top USAC officials killed on a charter
flight that went down in April 23, 1978. He is buried in Indianapolis.

The AFN Archives list Captain J. I. Saubers (Palm Beach,
Florida) as the last owner of this missing car. He is also listed as an
owner of Mille Miglia 421/100/168, pictured above.

These photos are also from the Frazer Nash archives, sent by Jim
Trigwell on January 30, 1999. The photo captions can be read on the
full-sized image:

Geoff Dowdle sent these photos in July, 1999. They were
taken in New Zealand when Bill Clarke owned this car. It's a Mille Miglia,
S/N 421/100/161, the same car as photos.# 2 and #3 above, 40+ years later.

Here are more photos of 421/100/161, courtesy of Chris Drewett,
sent in February 2003. He wrote: "The first owner of XHX193 was a
company that my father was Managing Director of and he and the Chairman Wyndham
Hewitt drove it to win the Aix-Madrid rally. Around 1966 I found it
looking fairly sad outside a gas station in Sussex and my brother Richard bought
it for (I think) £650. At the time I had LXH3, and this photo was taken at my
house that year. XHX was originally Bristol maroon and looked really lovely when
new with tubular narrow chrome fenders and a movable spot light by the
windshield. Later Betty Haig had it repainted in her favourite metallic
blue."

Geoff sent this Mille Miglia
photo in August, 1999. It is S/N 421/100/167, built the same time as
my Mille Miglia.

This is a great example of the Le Mans Replica,
421/200/180S. Originally a single-seater, it was later converted to a
sports car. In 2002, it received a carefully proportioned body, modeled on
the last LMR.

Tim Aldington sent the following two photos with this comment:
"TME 924 - 1949 en route for the Mille Miglia to be driven by Serafini, I
was removed from the car in Geneva. If memory serves me right, 52 years later,
the other 'Nash on this trip was TMX 545, also to be raced by its owner, Norman
Culpan, in the Mille Miglia. However it was being driven by one, Dickie Stoop,
with my cousin John A. in the passenger seat. Somewhere near Dijon, it ended
upside down in a ditch, HJA driving behind in a Bristol, saw what had happened,
stopped, jumped out and grabbed the nearest part of the car, it happened to be
the hot exhaust pipe, result HJA burnt hand, John and Stoop just marginally
shaken, but poor Culpan must have been v. pissed off, when arriving in Geneva to
learn what had happened to his car."

"XMG 6 - 1952, in its original form, first of the Mk 11 Le
Mans Reps, at the 'works' ready for the Prix de Monte Carlo to be driven by
Stirling Moss. It retired, I think, with a rear wheel problem."

John Aldington related the story of this mishap to me in
November, 2002. Dickie Stoop asked John to watch the oil temp during the
high speed "break in" of the engine, as the bonnet was slightly
propped up at the rear to solve a high temperature situation. But it seems
Dickie wanted to check himself, and did not notice a large rock in the road
until the last minute. A swerve at 120 mph saved the front wheel, but a
rear tire hit the rock, burst, and sent the LMR into a slide and a ditch, upside
down, with John trapped under the car. With the gas leaking down on him,
John did not have much sympathy for Dickie, who complained of an injured
thumb. HJA did rush up and burned his hand on the exhaust. A large
crowd materialized from nowhere and righted the car. HJA drove the Mille
Miglia with his burned hand, probably in much pain.

Here are two more great photos of the last Le Mans Replica,
421/200/193, courtesy of Robert Richer. This was a VSCCA event at Lime
Rock, circa 1975. Mr. Richer is in the background, red sweater.

This photo is from David Starling, Le Mans Replica S/N
421/100/006, taken in 1973. Peter Jackson is the driver and owner.

This Le Mans Replica photo
is from John Kerridge's collection. It is S/N 421/100/157, when it was
owned by Michael Burn and John Michelsen.

Geoff Dowdle also sent these
Targa Florio photos in August, 1999. It is S/N 421/200/198. Geoff
wrote that these photos were about 20 years old and this car is now green.

Here is the same car, in May 2001, now touring with the Frazer
Nash Club "raid" to Sicily. The driver is Peter Roberts. The following car is Bill Roberts in his Le Mans Replica S/N 421/200/210.

This is 421/100/150, courtesy of Chris Drewett, sent in
February 2003. It was built as a Le Mans Replica and later re-bodied as a
Targa Florio. It is registered as LXH3 and appears
with his brother's Mille Miglia in a photo above.

Tim Aldington provided this
photo of Le Mans Coupe 421/200/186 at LeMans on June 12, 1954 being driven by
Becquart and Gatsonides. Mr. Aldington is sitting on the pit wall,
immediately behind the trunk/boot. James Trigwell further added:

Tim Aldington identified himself as being on
the right wearing the Tyrolean hat. The gentleman on the left, also with
glasses, is HJ Aldington, the owner of the company which built the Frazer Nash
cars. HJ had 2 brothers - his older brother Bill is on his left (in dark jacket
and scarf) and his younger brother was Don. Tim is Don's son and so HJ's
nephew.

Here is a photo courtesy of Noel Yates. He took this
shot of 421/200/211 at Silverstone, July 1970, noting the Swedish
registration. Kjell Lindberg later identified this as his car at the time
and wrote he and his wife were on vacation in England and visited Silverstone
for a HSCC club meeting.

This model is a "one
off", built for Mrs. Kitty Maurice, S/N 421/100/151. It resembles the
later Targa Florio and was the Earl's Court show car in 1951. The vintage
photo is courtesy of Rick Ford. His website, Rick's
Classic Cars Photographs, has many, very nice historical automobile images
for sale.

Kjell Lindberg commented on these
photos sent by Chris Drewett of the two Targa Florios. He wrote about this
scene of "...two Frazer Nash's outside a manor house in the south part of
England. Those two ladies competed in the Alpine Rally, in a Le Mans Replica.
The driver was Betty Haig but I do not remember the name of the other lady. In
the beginning of the 70's I visited them. At that time Betty was the secretary
of the HSCC (Historic Sports Car Club) in England...if you have been drinking
Haig whiskey, Betty Haig's great-grandfather started that distillery in
Scotland."

LHX 3 is S/N 421/100/150 and XMM524 is S/N 421/200/182.

John Brinkmann wrote in 2009:

"It is likely that the second woman referred above is
Barbara Marshall, who was often Betty's co-driver, before and after the war, and
lived with her at Shellingford house in the early 1970's. Despite her lineage,
Betty never touched a drop of whiskey."

Meets and Gatherings: The Raid!

Geoff sent these photos of the
Frazer Nash Raid to the Alps in June, 1999. They were taken by a participant
from Australia, John Dymond. Here is a pre-event report from Jim Trigwell:

"Today I am off to the
Italian Alps with my wife Eileen in our Le Mans Replica together with 68 other
FNs, mainly pre-war. It has been organized by the FN Section of the Vintage
Sports Car Club and entails a 2 week trip to Italy and back to commemorate
successes for Frazer Nash in the Alpine Rallies of the mid 1930s.

Actually the FN did rather well in Alpine Rallies in the 1950s, winning an
Alpine Cup for an unpenalized run in this arduous rally in 1951, 1953 and 1954
(in chassis S/N 156, 005 & 164 respectively). Therefore it is entirely
appropriate that I should be taking my post-war Nash. There are 5 other post
war cars entered - S/N 153, 158, 170, 202 & 210 - so including mine,
that's 5 LMRs and one Coupe in all. No. 153 is the car Stirling Moss drove to
win the Isle of Man race in 1951 and it is now owned and will be driven to
Italy by John Aldington.

We will have runs over some of the famous Alpine passes plus plenty of food,
wine and chatter along the way. Some mountain villages will entertain us with
brass bands and festivals as well as one speed sprint through the market
square. We will also have dinner at the famous Schlumpf Museum of Bugatti's in
France on the way home."

Another Raid photo, this one
from Andrew Green, of Mark Morris' Le Mans Replica. This is proper
motoring!

Finally, just a reminder of where
Frazer Nash got started. Our late friend, John Kerridge, who lives near San Diego, sent these
photos of his 1926 Frazer Nash.

John says the history he has shows
it was raced successfully at Brooklands in the 30's under the name
"Abbott-Nash". He's looking details of its racing history in the late
40's, when it's reported to also have been raced extensively. In the late 50's,
it was used in VSCC events in the UK, with significant success. It was then
called the "Acedes-Nash", but John says it's really it's
"just" a Frazer Nash. I think it looks great!

This photo was taken during the
restoration, late in 1999:

And here's John driving this car at Holtville (California),
after its completion in 2000:

John has raced at Coronado and
the Monterey Historics and Pre-Historics (Laguna Seca) many times!